Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, who has made us set apart through His commandments and commanded us to actively study Torah. Please YHVH, our Elohim, sweeten the words of Your Torah in our mouths and in the mouths of all Your people Israel. May we and our offspring, and the offspring of Your people, the House of Israel, may we all, together, know Your Name and study Your Torah for the sake of fulfilling Your desire. Blessed are You, YHVH, Who teaches Torah to His people Israel. Blessed are You, YHVH our Elohim, King of the universe, Who chose us from all the nations and gave us the Torah. Blessed are You, YHVH, Giver of the Torah.
Bilaam utters seven proverbs or “mashalim” over the nation of Yisrael.
The proverbs contain cryptic hidden messages.
Aliyah Reviee 22:39-23:12
Num 22:39
And Bilʽam
went with Balaq, and they came to Qiryath
Ḥutsoth – (city of streets- creates impression that this was a busy place
– perhaps these curses were given from urban and rural areas)
Num
22:40 And Balaq slaughtered cattle and
sheep, and he sent some to Bilʽam and to the heads who were with him.
Num
22:41 And it came to be the next day,
that Balaq took Bilʽam and brought him up to the high places of Baʽal, and from there he saw the extremity of
the camp.
“High place worship’’ is all false systems of religion that are in rebellion to YHVH’s Word – His Torah – His Messiah who clearly taught us to worship His Father in Spirit and in truth – Yoh 4:23
"High
place", or "high places", (Hebrew במה bamah and plural במות bamot or bamoth) in a biblical context always means "place(s)
of worship". It has been suggested that the plural of the word
referred to places of sacred prostitution and of pagan worship.
...’’
The prophet speaks directly to this problem in a
very graphic and almost crude way.
Eze 16:24
that you also built an arched(Hb “gav”) place for yourself, and made a
high place in every street for yourself.
Eze 16:25
“You built your high places at the head of every way, and made your
loveliness to be loathed. And you parted – “pasak”(opened wide) your feet(or
legs) to everyone who passed by, and increased your whorings.
“Gav”
or arched building was commonly known as a place of idol worship as well as a
brothel.
“High
place” was a place of false worship – A place of worship with a high tower.
A
false place of worship is a place where you received an impure or mixed “seed.”
Pro 29:18
Where there is no vision,(Hb “chazon” or heavenly communication of Torah)
the people are let loose,(become spiritually immoral) But blessed is he who
guards the Torah.
“ Proverbs 29:18
teaches that when a nation is without the Torah of YHVH, the people become
unbridled and give free expression to their sinful desires. They become lawless
and rush towards anarchy and destruction. YHVH’s Torah empowered by the Ruach
Ha Kodesh has the power to restrain man so that he does not give free reign to
the lusts of his flesh.”
High places are strongholds in our thought
patterns often brought through pagan influences and the Torahless teachings of
religion.
2Co 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not fight according to the flesh.
2Co 10:4
For the weapons we fight with are not fleshly but mighty in Elohim for
overthrowing strongholds,
2Co 10:5
overthrowing reasonings and every high matter that exalts itself against
the knowledge of Elohim, taking captive every thought to make it obedient to
the Messiah,
2Co 10:6
and being ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is
complete.1 Footnote: 1John 3:36. (disobedience to what? - Torah!)
Eze 16:32
“The wife who commits adultery who takes strangers instead of her
husband!
Eze 16:33
“To all whores they give gifts, but you gave gifts to all your lovers,
and bribed them to come to you from all around in your whorings.
Eze 16:34
“Thus you are different from other women in your whorings, because no
one whores after you, and in you giving a gift, while a gift was not given to
you. Thus you are different.”
Eze 16:35
‘Therefore, O whore, hear the word of יהוה!
We
have opened up our hearts to receive a strange seed or a mixed seed. – You
cannot sow two different seeds same field. Lev 19:19. The Torah is the perfect
seed and cannot be mixed with other seed.
Psa 19:7
The Torah of יהוה is perfect,
bringing back the being;
Perfect
law of liberty - Jas 1:25
But he that looked into the perfect Torah, that of freedom,1
and continues in it, not becoming a hearer that forgets, but a doer of work,
this one shall be blessed in his doing of the Torah. Footnote: 1See
2:12.
Num 23:1 And Bilʽam
said to Balaq, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and
seven rams for me here.”
Num
23:2 And Balaq did as Bilʽam had spoken,
and Balaq and Bilʽam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Num 23:3 Bilʽam then said to Balaq, “Stand by your burnt offering, and let me go on. It might be that יהוה does come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I shall declare to you.” And he went to a bare height.